Pixel!SCAN

THE Scanning Solution for UNIX

Pixel!SCAN provides an icon-based interface for advanced scanning capabilities with simple point-and-click functionality. Pixel!SCAN goes beyond typical scanning solutions by offering features that will help you produce quality scans with little effort: scan color calibration, and extensive automatic and interactive color adjustment controls. With the new one-step scan color calibration process, you can generate a correction for your scanner with the supplied Mentalix calibration target. For true plug-and-play with the scanner you are using, Pixel!SCAN's "image intelligence" automatically provides preset scan settings that can be tailored by the user.

Pixel!SCAN allows you to perform gang and batch scans, thereby reducing repetitive tasks. You can also scan images directly to a file and apply convolution filters like unsharp mask and descreen while scanning. All these features exist in a single tool that produces a final scan that rivals the quality of the original. This member of the Pixel!FX family of integrated imaging products has application in a wide variety of markets. It has been designed to operate efficiently on all popular UNIX platforms. Displays supported include most monochrome, grayscale, 8-bit or 24-bit color display controllers.

It offers an icon-based user interface that includes complete point-and-click functionality. The use of tear-off menus and icon toolbars allows you to customize your display. Extensive drag and drop support gives you intuitive control of powerful image manipulation operations.

It also provides unprecedented speed and performance in the most demanding image processing environments. The result is increased user productivity with less time spent waiting for display refreshes and file saves.

• Supports SCSI scanners from Agfa, Fujitsu, HP, Howtek, Microtek, Sharp, and UMAX ( see Scanners)
• Color calibration: Automated and scanner specific with Mentalix calibration target
• Automatic adjustment allows program to determine appropriate look-up table (LUT) and/or scan settings for a particular image
• Initial scan settings easily customized
• Resizable crop box allows interactive cropping prior to scanning
• Prescan performs a low-resolution pass of scanner bed and displays a color representation of the image on the scan window
• Interactively manipulate prescan display to adjust size and select areas for final scan
• Scan directly to file, Pixel!VIEW, Pixel!EDIT, Pixel!DB, or third-party fax application
• Scan to File allows scanning of images larger than available swap space
• Scan Gang Add feature allows multiple areas of the image to be selected for inclusion in a single batch scan
• Scan Gang button executes a final scan of multiple areas and loads each area into its own image window to save or edit
• Reset Scan Window button clears and resets the scan window after performing a scan or prescan
• Zoom In/Zoom Out to view prescan image; scroll bars facilitate moving around in the image
• Size and output control features allow interactive adjustments to resolution, size, and output parameters
• Automatically set scanning settings to match output size and line screen you specify
• Histogram shows distribution of scan intensities over prescan area
• Adjust scanner color settings interactively using graphic display to obtain optimum results
• Adjustable settings include brightness, contrast, gamma, white point, black point, and mid point
• Configurable scan parameters include:
  • Resolution - Full resolution of scanner
  • Image Type - Supports line art, grayscale, and 24 bit color images
  • White Point, Mid Point, and Black Point - Use in conjunction with histogram to stretch range of output values
  • Intensity - Controls darkness/lightness of image
  • Contrast - Softens or sharpens image
  • Gamma - Corrects for color mismatch of hardware devices
  • Paper Size - Up to 11 x 17 inches
  • Look-Up Tables - Including custom LUTs
  • Area - Region of interest selection
• Projects image size prior to scan
• Supports scanner-specific options - Dither, invert, mirror, pixel averaging
• Support for applying convolution filters, including Unsharp mask, Descreen or user defined filters, while scanning
• Scan & Prescan grids - Supports inches, centimeters, pica and point measures
• Automated document feeder support for selected scanners
• Close and Release feature disconnects the scanner so that it can be used by another user
• Save and reload most scan setting combinations for repetitive tasks
• Scan with independent x/y resolution when supported by scanner

© 1996 Mentalix, Inc. Pixel!FX and Pixel!SCAN are registered trademarks, and Pixel!EDIT, Pixel!VIEW, Pixel!DB, Pixel!OCR, Pixel!PRINT, and Pixel!LZW are trademarks of Mentalix, Inc. All other trademarks acknowledged. Specifications are subject to change without notice.

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